Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Viola Davis and many more coming to Toronto for TIFF

Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Viola Davis, Robert Duvall, Natalie Portman, Timothée Chalamet and dozens and dozens of other stars are bound for Toronto for this year’s edition of TIFF, it was revealed Thursday.

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its roster of luminaries who’ll be in town for the fest (Sept. 6-16) and it’s a glittering one, including Nicole Kidman (for her upcoming film Destroyer, co-starring Tatiana Maslany), Kristen Stewart (here for Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy), Elisabeth Moss (Her Smell), Robert Pattinson (High Life, a sci-fi drama co-starring Juliette Binoche), Chris Pine (Outlaw King, about Robert the Bruce, the same figure at the centre of Braveheart), and La La Land director Damien Chazelle, who will be here with Gosling to tout their Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. (Carell and Chalamet will be here with co-star Maura Tierney for the premiere of Beautiful Boy, their film about addiction and family.)

Ryan Gosling, last seen at TIFF for La La Land in 2016, is returning with First Man. (Chris Young / CP FILE PHOTO)

That’s not to overlook the new, Bradley Cooper-directed remake of A Star is Born, which will see its four first-billed cast members — Lady Gaga, Cooper, Dave Chappelle and Sam Elliott — all converge on Toronto for the movie’s Sept. 7 gala.

Oscar winners bound for the city include Portman, here with her pop-star drama Vox Lux; Davis, Duvall and director Steve McQueen, all here for Widows; Matthew McConaughey, for drug drama White Boy Rick; Julianne Moore and director Sebastian Lelio, both here for Gloria Bell; Mahershala Ali for Green Book, with Viggo Mortensen, who’ll be here too; director Alfonso Cuaron with ROMA; Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Asghar Farhadi, with their film Everybody Knows; Hilary Swank with family drama What They Had; and Julia Roberts, with Ben is Back.